Name: Agrococcus baldri Zlamala et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: baldr’i. N.L. gen. masc. n. baldri, of Baldr, ancient German god of light, referring to the photochromogenic behavior

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCM 4953; DSM 14215; JCM 12132; NBRC 103055; V-108

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB279548 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zlamala C, Schumann P, Kampfer P, Rossello-Mora R, Lubitz W, Busse HJ. Agrococcus baldri sp. nov., isolated from the air in the 'Virgilkapelle' in Vienna. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1211-1216.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1439-1440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Agrococcus Groth et al. 1996

Assigned by: Zlamala C, Schumann P, Kampfer P, Rossello-Mora R, Lubitz W, Busse HJ. Agrococcus baldri sp. nov., isolated from the air in the 'Virgilkapelle' in Vienna. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1211-1216.

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Record number: 772965